Sound of My Heart 我心的歌

(image via "Goodreads") "Imagine spending your life as a beast of burden , or if you're lucky, a pamer pet, never really being allowed to be an actual person. Imagine never being able to make the decision or pick the direction and having to always be grateful to the person who does get to make the choices." -- Anonymous Read the above sentence online that someone commented on the Henrik Ibsen Play "A Doll's House". It was like someone just punched so strongly in my my chest that I became teary-eyed as this is almost exactly the way I was raised - though materialistic sufficient, there was no chance or room for development of self-autonomy and individuality - not allowed to being myself or even express my voice or opinions. I did what my mother, and my sisters want me to do, I headed the direction they asked to go (my father though kind, has always been an absent figure in my life emotionally and psychologically). I did not know how ...